Observations of the ionosphere using the tiny ionospheric photometer

Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 227-235

  Coker, Clayton ^a   Dymond, Kenneth F ^a   Budzien, Scott A ^a   Chua, Damien H ^a   Liu, Jann Yenq ^b   Anderson, David N ^c   Basu, Sunanda ^d   Pedersen, Todd R ^e  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Equatorial anomaly; Far ultraviolet; Ionosphere; Irregularities

Indexed keywords

ANOMALY; DIEL VARIATION; IONOSPHERE; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PHOTOMETER; RECOMBINATION; SENSOR; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

EID: 67649661695     PISSN: 10170839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3319/TAO.2008.01.18.02(F3C)     Document Type: Article

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